Personal Narrative: Jacob

“Peculiardom is dying, Jacob It’s a lost dream. And even if somehow, by some miracle, we were to take up arms against the corrupted and prevail, we’d be left with a shadow of what we once had; a shattered mess.You have a home-one

The second time Jacob visits the children’s home, he encounters a group of small children that he recognizes from the pictures his grandfather used to show him. One child asks if he is Abraham, but when they see his face, they are disappointed that he is not, and run away. Jacob runs after them and follows them into a tunnel, but gives up and decides to go home. As he walks through the town

Learning that his mom was having an affair with someone else hit him in the heart hard. He wanted to believe that it wasn’t his mother, that it was someone else, but he couldn’t. He found out when he was gathering flowers for his mother, and then he heard something. He went around to see his mother with another person other than his dad. When they parted from each other they kissed, and Jacob was shocked from this. He was hiding behind a bush when he saw this,“Through the leaves, Jacob caught a glimpse of the man’s face. They didn’t speak, only kissed, and parted”(191). One can assume that he's frustrated at his mom, and probably doesn’t want to talk with her for the day.

He had made plenty of friends such as: Braeden Schoenherr, Emma Hannasch, and Katelyn Daily. Those were also the people he grew up with. That’s one of the many perks of growing up in a small town, you knew everyone. The people he went to Preschool with were the people he ended up graduating high school with. He was a good student, always brought home good grades, and he held a job while in high school. He started out at Fareway for about a year, but then decided to move jobs to the local Pizza Hut in Carroll. He was astounding at his job there. In less than a year he went from being a server there, to becoming a manager. As he went through high school, he progressively did great things. He graduated in the top five of his class, and got a scholarship to DMACC for the two years that he was going to attend college. He went to DMACC for business management and graduated at the top of his class. At the age of 25 he got married in the fall of 2025. Three years later on Christmas Eve, he was blessed with his first son, Leroy. Jacob was such a kind and great father. He always wanted the best for his son, even if it did make him upset with him. He made sure his son knew that he was loved, but not

Defending Jacob is a courtroom drama that also examines the family dynamic and how it can shift or crack under pressure. It’s ending stirred up a lot of mixed feelings. The trial concludes with a suicide note written by Patz confessing to the murder of Ben Rifkin, causing Jacob to be acquitted. After the trial, the Barbers decide to go on vacation, so that they can get the feeling back of being a “normal” family. They are having an ideal vacation, until Hope, Jacob’s “girlfriend” that he met on the holiday, goes missing. Her body washes up on the beach several weeks after her disappearance, and while many believe that there were signs that pointed to her windpipe being crushed, her death is ultimately ruled an accident because of the body deterioration in the water.

He realizes that helping his friends will make him a better person. He risks his own life to save his family, Jacob and Oteka run from a lion so the lion can follow Jacob and leave Hannah, Paul, and Norman alone, Oteka yells at Jacob, “RUN!” Oteka said ( McKay 175). Jacob asks, “What is it? What is it?”(McKay 175). This is important because, risking ur life for others makes you look like a good person. He also goes to battle to get food for Norman. This was a really dangerous choice he made. “You-do you fight today?” asked Lizard (McKay 134). Food is a need for Norman, this reaches us that sometimes you have lose to gain something. This shows that Jacob learns from his

During this series of events it can be deemed that Jacob is an unreliable narrator through the unrealistic events, and because Jacob can be declared delusional. Jacob can be declared delusion, because he is currently ninety years old, experiencing memory loss, and taking medicine. For instance, a week earlier Jacob’s family came to visit and he did not know who they were, “I didn’t know them. I faked it, though- when they made their way toward me and I realized it was me they had come to see, I smiled” (Gruen 218). Sara Gruen implies that the reader should be questioning what Jacob is saying when he claims that he is walking out of the nursing home because even Jacob says, “Nobody seems to think it odd that an old man is standing in his slippers

Jacob tiptoes into his mother's bedroom and slides the shoebox under her bed then sneaks back to the doorway.

Growing up listening to his grandpa's crazy stories from the past, Jacob believes that he is someone to be inspired by, but he also questions his validity. Many rumors are made about his grandfather's loyalty toward his family, and Jacob wants everything in the world for them not to be true. "If Grandpa Portman wasn't honorable and good, I wasn't sure anyone could be" (Riggs 92). This is an example of characterization, describing Jacob's extreme loyalty and affection towards his grandfather; he continuously sticks up for him, without knowing the true story behind all of his suspicious actions. Jacob goes to drastic measures in order to clear his grandfather's name; this is just one example. The respect he has toward him prompts Jacob to make the spontaneous decision to investigate the unknown, mysterious island for any clues he might find. When accusations had been made about his grandfather's faithfulness towards his wife, Jacob immediately considers that there must be another explanation, which he is determined to find along his journey. Jacob soon uncovers that the stories he had been told all his life about these strange children with "superpower-like" characteristics are actually real. The pictures his grandpa had shown him were, in fact, not photoshopped or edited, but were completely real and he witnesses it. After uncovering the pictures he finds inside the house, he makes this statement to his father: "'I'm serious. Don't you think this could mean that maybe he wasn't cheating on Grandma, after all?'" (Riggs 101). This is a rising conflict at the beginning of the novel. When he finally comes closer to proving his point, he makes every effort to go out of his way to defend his grandfather to his dad, who did not believe he had the greatest of intentions. The

Jacob’s family past has many dark secrets that are now effecting his life in a negative

Jacob was accused of being mentally ill throughout the book by his “therapist” and family. They thought his grandfather’s death was the cause of his depression. Almost 7% of the U.S. population is clinically diagnosed with depression. “Clinical depression is a serious condition that

Jacob used to think that he was normal until he found his grandfather was killed by a Hollowgast. Once he found out his grandfather was killed by something unusual, he knew that he wasn’t normal anymore.

He did not want to face the truth until later convinced by a psychiatrist that it is healthy to confront a problem in order to understand it. Jacob found ways to blame his loss on himself, yet he stays helpless. Comparably, the characters Alicia and Jordan from “The Feather Pillow” share an interesting relationship of deep

Father Jacob worked at a dark, empty and creaky church named saint maries church that was frigid and chilled you to the bones just when you stand in it. When you touched the walls it felt like you were touching an iceberg in antarctica when it's winter. It was around twelve o'clock at night when Father Ronny the preacher that was filling in for Father Jacob walked in the main chapel and found Jacob dead in the aisle between the old and decaying wooden seats. Ronny quickly grabbed the old dial phone that was on a table that was barely standing. He dialed 911 with haste then told the operator

Let's start off with Jacob, Jacob has a lot of things he wants to know, also he is pretty curious. We are going to talk about bog boy, bog boy died and they buried him under a well bog. Jacob had walked through the bog, he was on his way back to the hotel. He wanted to tell his dad he wanted to go but the bartender grabs his attention because he wasn't supposed to be up their. Apparently